Edmund Weld was born 1560 in England, and died 1608 in 1608. He married Amye Brewster.
Notes for Edmund Weld: Edmund Weld was born in about 1560, most likely in Sudbury, Suffolk, England - an ancient market town dating back to Saxon times. He was a prosperous merchant - a mercer by trade - dealing in textiles. The Bishop's transcript records show that on April 12, 1585, Edmund Wylde married Ame Brewster - see The Brewster Family - in St. Peter's Church in Sudbury). The couple had nine children; presumably all were christened at the church: Daniel, John, Edmund, Thomas, Benjamin, Joseph, James, Mary, and Elizabeth.
The English roots of Edmund Weld were discussed in an article by Douglas Richardson in The American Genealogist. He writes that the English origins of the Weld family have been common knowledge among genealogists since 1895 with the article by Henry Waters. Edmund was "doubtless" descended from William Weld of Eaton in the county of Chester. In 1352 William was Sheriff of London. The family connection can be made since the coat of arms used by the sheriff is identical to that used by the early New England Weld immigrants (see photo) as described in the NEHG Register article by Moriarity.
Edward was a well-to-do man, owning land in several English counties: in Sudbury and Great Cornard in Suffolk; in North Lopham in Norfolk; and in Balington in Essex. Charles F. Robinson wrote: "Edmund was evidently a very prosperous cloth merchant in Sudbury, into which town weavers had been introduced by Edward III. The town was on its way to becoming the center of the cloth industry in Suffolk (see map of the county of Suffolk), a precedence which it attained completely after the Restoration. Edmund Weld invested the savings from his business in lands, as his will shows. The location of his home can probably be very closely ascertained. It was two doors from the 'White Hart,' as shown by the will of William Buxton the elder, apothecary, dated 14 Jan. 1611, probated 24 Dec., 1611, which disposes of a messuage in St. Peter's Parish 'between the messuage late Edmund Weldes now in occupation of Thomas Barron on one side and the messuage called the White Hart on the other side.' There is still [1938] a 'White Hart' in Sudbury, on Cross Street. He was prominent in the councils of the Borough, of which we find him 'Bailiff', 5 Sept., 1597."
His will was dated December 5, 1605 and probated on May 3, 1608. Henry F. Waters published the document in the NEHG Register in 1895:
"I give and bequeath unto Amye my right well beloved wife my mansion house wherein I do now inhabit and dwell, in the parish of St. Peter in Sudbury (see illustration and photos), to hold for life; and after her decease I give the moiety and one part thereof (i.e.) the shop, the chamber over it, the warefouse &c. to Daniel Welde my eldest son; the other part of the messuage, being the West side thereof, I give to John Welde my second son. To the said Daniel fifty pounds at five and twenty years of age and to John forty pounds (at same age). To Edmund my third son my tenements and houses which I purchased of Mr. John Howe, in the parish of St. Gregory, to have and to hold after he shall be of the full age of four and twenty years. To Thomas my fourth son a piece of arable land of six acres in Great Cornard called Church Croftes, at four and twenty. To Benjamin my fifth son a piece of arable land of five acres which I purchased of Peter Greene gent, being parcel of the manor of Neale's, lying in a field near the clay pits in the parish of St. Peter in Sudbury, abutting upon the way leading from Sudbury towards Great Waldingfield, to have and to hold at his age of four and twenty. I give to Joseph my sixth son my piece of meadow in Cornerd and Sudbury containing two acres and three rods which was some time Richard Eden's gent and abutteth upon the high way leading from Sudbury towards Corneard right against a certain lane called Cats Lane. To James my seventh son my messuage or tenement with a croft of land belonging to one acre and half in North Lopham Norfolk which I purchased of John Lovick. To my eldest daughter Mary Welde fifty pounds at two and twenty. To my youngest daughter Elizabeth my two tenements which I purchased of John Drewe, in Balington Essex, and an acre of land called Stumpcrosse in Cornard. Amye my wife to be sole executrix and my brother John Dereslye to be supervisor. William Howe and Robert Buckstone witnesses."
Children of Edmund Weld and Amye Brewster are:
+Joseph Weld, b. 07 Apr 1599, St. Peter's, Sudbury, Suffolk, England , d. 07 Oct 1646, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts .
Edmund Weld (b. 1560, d. 1608)
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